Pacific IFA Ltd (previously called Pacific Life), is an Essex based financial advice firm currently showing 2 active and regulated advisers, and is now known to have been involved in the sale of Harlequin Property investments through SIPP wrappers, as part of a chain of firms that involve unregulated introducers acting as agents for Harlequin.…

IFA Portafina LLP, who were previously registered with the FCA under the name Portal Financial Services LPP (trading as Portal Financial), have had no less than 19 complaints upheld by the Financial Ombudsman regarding their advice to put client money into Unregulated Collective Investment Schemes (UCIS) or similar High-Risk investments through SIPPs (Self-Invested Personal Pensions).…

Kingswood Financial Advisors, a Mid Glamorgan based financial advice firm has had restrictions imposed by the Financial Conduct Authority that mean it can no longer transfer people’s pensions into SIPPs with Non-Standard Investments. The FCA notes say that the firm must not “carry out any regulated activities in relation pension switches and/or pension transfers to…

The Financial Conduct Authority has stepped up the restrictions imposed on Bank House Investment Management – a financial advice firm – meaning Bank House can no longer carry out any regulated activity. Previously, the regulator said that Bank House could no longer “Carry out regulated activities in relation to pension switches and/or pension transfers to any…

A total of 44 years worth of ban has been handed to the three former directors of Worldwide Commodity Partners Limited – a Carbon Credits investment scheme that was wound up back in may 2014. The Official Receiver of the Public Interest Unit decided that Lee John Thompson, Andrew Micheal Spiteri and Stephen Michael Leary…

Have you begun your own claim yet? The FSCS has released a statement that says it expects to pay over £50m in claims regarding Costa Rican investment Ethical Forestry, an article in Citywire has stated. The unregulated timber investment had at least 3,000 UK investors, many of which have invested over £18,000 into the high-risk…

A new letter dated 28th November from Ethical Forestry liquidators HJS Recovery has told investors that they are still no closer to reaching a solution. Shane Biddlecombe, Joint Liquidator over the troubled and unregulated forestry scheme explained yet another lengthy gap in correspondence with investors, stating that he did not have “anything of any substance…

If you’ve invested your cash or pension into Premier Children’s Services (often called PCS) and you haven’t yet heard the news, you might want to sit down (if you’re not already). On the 15th of November 2016, the board of Premier Children’s Services met to discuss the best options to deal with the “financial difficulties”…

Are you one of those 3 that aren’t suitable? Back as early as 2013, the Financial Services regulator (then the FSA, now the FCA) produced a damning report, stating only around 1 in 4 UCIS investments are suitable for the investors they are sold to. (FCA Ban) But what is a UCIS? Do you have…

The Financial Conduct Authority has told 3 unrelated IFA businesses to stop pension switching for clients and to hold off on the disposal of their assets “without the prior consent of the FCA”. Although 2 of the 3 firms are now in administration anyway, this means that the firms will no longer be able to…

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